News

August 31, 2011 15:00

• Agafonov's family asks state protection; Mirzaev's girlfriend complains of threats

  The family of Ivan Agafonov, 19, who died from a punch of Rasul Mirzaev, a native of Dagestan and world champion in mixed martial arts, asked investigators for protection. The athlete's advocate Igor Dergachov argues that Rasul Mirzaev's girlfriend is threatened; and "there are grounds to believe that witnesses may occur under pressure."

August 31, 2011 14:00

• Kabardino-Balkarian participants of Youth Forum "Mashuk-2011" win ten grants

  Ten projects submitted by participants from the city of Prokhladny, Kabardino-Balkaria, to the contest within the Youth Forum "Mashuk-2011", which was held in July in Pyatigorsk, received grants.

August 31, 2011 13:00

• Ex-adviser of Prime Minister of Armenia, accused of paedophilia, denies violent acts

  After a month break, the closed trial of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, ex-adviser of Armenian Prime Minister, accused of paedophilia, was resumed. The defendant denies commission of any violent sexual acts and asserts that he had sexual intercourses with children with their consent.

August 31, 2011 12:00

• The parents of a teenager who disappeared in Dagestan ask him to return home through the Committee for adaptation of gunmen

  On August, 28, the Presidential Committee for adaptation of gunmen of the Republic of Dagestan organized a meeting between representatives of mass media and the family of a young man who disappeared 2,5 months before. His relatives consider it most probable that he has “gone to the forest” and recorded a video message for him asking him to return home.

August 31, 2011 11:12

• The number of victims of two explosions in Grozny has come to eight people

  According to the latest data, eight people perished as a result of two explosions which happened on August, 30, in Grozny and no less that 16 persons got wounded.

August 31, 2011 11:00

• A note of local officials’ corruption found in a car of a policeman who shot himself down in Krasnodar region

  The death of a police major, Chief of Soviet settlement police department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in Novokubansky district, is under investigation in Krasnodar region. The investigators initiated a criminal case on the fact of incitement of the policeman to a suicide. A note of the officials’ corruption was found in his car. This was reported by regional Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation.

August 31, 2011 08:00

• Amnesty announced in Nagorno-Karabakh

  On August, 30, deputies of the People’s Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh adopted a decision of announcing amnesty in honour of the 20-th anniversary of declaration of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. It is already the sixth amnesty in Nagorno-Karabakh for the period of 20 years. About 20 per cent convicts will be released on the amnesty.

August 30, 2011 23:58

• Four persons killed by suicide bomber in Grozny

  In Grozny, at night on August 30 a supposed suicide bomber blew him up at a detention attempt. As a result, the blast killed four people and wounded other five, said a source from the republic's law enforcement bodies.

August 30, 2011 22:00

• Nineteen houses of Jehovah's Witnesses searched in Taganrog

  In the Rostov Region, after August 25, operative groups of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) searched the houses of 19 Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by Gregory Martynov from the press service of the Administrative Centre of this religious organization.

August 30, 2011 20:00

• Beslan to open composition "Good Angel of Peace" in memory of terror act victims

  On September 2, the city of Beslan, North Ossetia, will open an architectural and sculptural composition "Good Angel of Peace" in memory of the victims of the terror act committed in September 2004 at School No. 1.

August 30, 2011 19:00

• Capital of Kalmykia starts charity action "Stretch out your helping hand"

  In Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, the Foundation named "Miloserdiye" (Mercy), located in the temple-chapel of St Sergius of Radonezh, is gathering clothes, stationery items and toys for children from poor and needy families. Gifts for September 1 will be also brought to the Elista orphanage for mentally retarded children and social shelter.

August 30, 2011 18:00

• Russia to elect its State Duma on December 4

  According to the decree of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, signed on August 29, the elections of Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation will be held on December 4, 2011. This year, the parties' threshold barrier was brought down to 5 percent; while the term in office went up to 5 years. In parallel with the federal elections, the South of Russia – Ingushetia, Stavropol Territory and Astrakhan Region – will elect their regional parliaments.

August 30, 2011 17:00

• Father of missing Ingush resident complains of lethargic inquiry

  In Ingushetia, the father of the kidnapped Akraman Ugurchiev has turned to the republic's Prosecutor's Office, Ombudsperson and Security Council. So far, the officials and security agents, involved in search of Akraman Ugurchiev and Umalat Bersanov, can say nothing to their relatives, Salman Ugurchiev, Akraman's father, said.

August 30, 2011 16:00

• In Astrakhan, verdict to natives of Dagestan convicted for raping disabled girl comes into force

  The verdict passed by the Soviet District Court, according to which 8 natives of Dagestan were found guilty of raping a 26-year-old girl, a hearing and speech invalid, has come into affect, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation).

August 30, 2011 15:00

• MNS of NAR: arrested Zeinalov died of cancer, not of torture

  The Ministry of National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) has admitted the death on August 28 of Turadzh Zeinalov, 31, who had been arrested by Ministry's agents. However, the MNS of the NAR denies the violent death of Zeinalov.

August 30, 2011 14:23

• Armavir authorities start United Database of City Problems

  The administration of the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, has created the United Database of City Problems, which is based on the programme of "social family passports".

August 30, 2011 13:00

• A resident of Krasnodar region suspected of an attempt of murder on ethnic hatred grounds

  Committee of Inquiry accuses an eighteen-years-old resident of Krasnodar of an attempt of killing a sixteen-years-old ethnic Armenian on ethnic hatred grounds.

August 30, 2011 12:00

• Ex-prosecutor in Volgograd who ran into a child sentenced to 2,5 years of custody

  Today Central district court of Volgograd sentenced Elena Ivanova, ex-employee of Public prosecutor’s office, who was acknowledged guilty of a child’s death in a road accident to 2,5 years of custody with a stay of execution.

August 30, 2011 11:00

• ICRC is searching for 2,3 thousand missing persons in Northern Caucasus

  The International Committee of the Red Cross has presently received 2324 search requests from persons whose relatives in Northern Caucasus are considered missing. This figure was announced by North-Caucasian Mission of ICRC on the eve of International Day of Missing People which is commemorated today, August, 30.

August 30, 2011 10:00

• Over one thousand bikers took part in a bike-festival in Novorossiysk

  XVI International Bike-festival called “Epilogue” organized by “Night Wolfs” motorcycle club passed off at the sea front of Novorossiysk on August, 29. Head of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin arrived at the festival in the lead of a motorcade at the wheel of a three-wheeled “Harley Davidson”.